Hitachi Compute Blade 2000, User Manual

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This operation only gives a command to start
hardware memory dump. Then the server blade
Web console responds and returns to the Power
and LEDs screen before the dump is complete.
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To check the dump progress, use the OS console
to the target server blade for X55R3/X55S3
models; use the remote console to the target
server blade for other models.
3 Check the progress and completion of the hardware memory dump.
When the hardware memory dump is started, the following screen is displayed
in the remote console or OS console.
The following is a rough estimated time required for a dump:
About 4 minutes per 2 GB dump file size.
Required time for dump depends on the write performance of the storage.
When the dump is successfully completed, “hardware dump complete” is
displayed. After the dump is complete, the operation set in Post process of
the EFI setup menu is executed.
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When the dump partition does not have enough free
space for the dump file, a message appears and the
dump is stopped when free space runs out.
Once the dump is stopped, it cannot be resumed.
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If hardware memory dump process has aborted, data
on the dumped images might be corrupted.
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When executed in the virtual environment, hardware
memory dump may not work properly. Check system
event logs about whether hardware memory dump
has been executed or not. If “IPMI WDT Timeout
(BIOS)” is displayed after “Issue INIT for
HardwareDump” or if “HardwareDump Start” is not
displayed in the system event log, the hardware
memory dump might not have worked properly.
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